DFI 40800950 manual Expansion Slots, Onboard PCI Audio Features Aureal AU8810

Introduction

Expansion Slots

The system board is equipped with 1 universal AGP slot. AGP is an interface designed to support high performance 3D graphics cards. It utilizes a dedicated pipeline to access system memory for texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending.The universal AGP slot supports AGP 2x with up to 533MB/sec. bandwidth and AGP 4x with up to 1066MB/sec. bandwidth for 3D graphics applications. AGP in this system board will deliver faster and better graphics to your PC.

The system board is also equipped with 5 dedicated PCI slots and 1 AMR slot. AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) is an interface designed for installing an audio riser card, modem riser card or audio/modem riser card that is compliant to the AMR specification.

Onboard PCI Audio Features (Aureal AU8810)

The system board uses Aureal AU8810 which provides a powerful PCI audio onboard.

•Supports Microsoft® DirectSound/DirectSound 3D

•256-voice wavetable with DLS 1.0

•Supports A3D positional audio effects

•16 channels of high quality sample rate conversion

•Supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro emulation and AdLib, OPL 2/3 FM synthesis

•PCI 2.2 compliant and AC'97 2.1 interface compliant

ATX Double Deck Ports (PC 99 color-coded connectors)

•Two USB ports

•Two NS16C550A-compatible DB-9 serial ports

•One SPP/ECP/EPP DB-25 parallel port

•One mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port

•One mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port

•One game/MIDI port

•Three audio jacks: line-out, line-in and mic-in

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